Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic and matronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Julian +‎ -son.

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Examples

  • An orange Honda bella engine generator valued at £350 was stolen from the property - it had a black frame and a 'Jewson' sticker on the side.

    unknown title 2009

  • Another member of the scheme, UK building supplier Jewson, failed to ensure all its timber came from legal sources for nearly 10 years after joining.

    WWF accused of failing to regulate sustainable timber scheme 2011

  • WWF said Jewson had changed its timber sourcing practices after problems had been found.

    WWF accused of failing to regulate sustainable timber scheme 2011

  • AFP Horses jump one of the fences during the Jewson Novices 'Handicap Steeple Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2008.

    A Showdown at the Horses Dominic Prince 2010

  • AFP Horses jump one of the fences during the Jewson Novices 'Handicap Steeple Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2008.

    A Showdown at the Horses Dominic Prince 2010

  • Tensions flared between advisers such as Penn and Mandy Grunwald, her media consultant, who wanted her to stick to the issues, and others, such as Jewson and Harold Ickes, who thought she should confront her chief shortcoming — the notion that she was power-hungry and calculating.

    Inside the Clinton Shake-Up 2008

  • Tensions flared between advisers such as Penn and Mandy Grunwald, her media consultant, who wanted her to stick to the issues, and others, such as Jewson and Harold Ickes, who thought she should confront her chief shortcoming — the notion that she was power-hungry and calculating.

    Inside the Clinton Shake-Up 2008

  • Tensions flared between advisers such as Penn and Mandy Grunwald, her media consultant, who wanted her to stick to the issues, and others, such as Jewson and Harold Ickes, who thought she should confront her chief shortcoming — the notion that she was power-hungry and calculating.

    Inside the Clinton Shake-Up 2008

  • There is, as an American journalist put it, a 'celluloid ceiling,'writes Kate Kellaway in the Observer As to why this is so, and what might be done about it, Kellaway hosts a roundtable discussion with Gurinder Chadha, Vicky Jewson, Gaby Dellal, Antonia Bird and Carine Adler.

    GreenCine Daily: Birds Eye View. 2007

  • These was bottom floar, Screwson, Hewson, and Jewson, attorneys; fust floar, Mr. Sergeant Flabber — opsite, Mr. Counslor Bruffy; and secknd pair, Mr. Haggerstony, an Irish counslor, praktising at the Old

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

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